One of the former police commandos implicated in the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu in 2006. Today, the Federal Court found the two guilty and sentenced them to death. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, January 13, 2015.
Two former police commandos were sentenced to death after the Federal Court today allowed the government's appeal over the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu in 2006.
Federal Court judge Suriyadi Halim Omar said the prosecution had proved its case to implicate Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azahar with the charge that carried the death penalty.
"As such, the Court of Appeal was wrong in reversing the findings of the trial court to free them," said Suriyadi, who is a member of the five-man bench to hear the final appeal.
On August 23, 2013, the Court of Appeal allowed the appeals brought by Azilah and Sirul and acquitted them.
Azilah was expressionless as the verdict was read. Sirul did not show up in court this morning.
Prosecutor Tun Abdul Majib Tun Hamzah asked the court to issue a warrant of arrest for Sirul and it was granted.
Four years earlier, High Court judge Datuk Zaki Mohd Yassin found the two guilty and sentenced them to death.
Evidence in court revealed that the Mongolian translator was either murdered by C4 explosives or was killed first and the remains destroyed on October 18, 2006, in the outskirts of Shah Alam, near capital city Kuala Lumpur.
Former political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, a confidante of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, was charged with abetting Azilah and Sirul but was acquitted by the High Court in 2008 without defence called.
The government did not appeal.
- TMI
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